Genesis Lecture 34 (Third day of the Creation 1) Swahili
Bible passage: Genesis 1:9-13
“[9] Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. [10] God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. [11] Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. [12] The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. [13] There was evening and there was morning, a third day.”
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ.
This is the 33rd Lecture on Genesis. On the second day of the Creation, God created an expanse between waters. Due to this creation, many new things took place both in the fleshly world and in the spiritual world. In the fleshly (physical) world, the atmosphere was created. In the Second Heaven, which belongs to the spiritual realm, both the domain of light and the domain of darkness were created. In the fleshly world, the waters below the expanse became ocean on the third day of the Creation, and the waters above the expanse remained as water vapors in the atmosphere.
On the 4th day of creation as the sun and the moon were created, circulations began in the waters. The waters of the seas evaporated to become water vapor that formed clouds, and these clouds travelled with the wind that blew and brought rain around the globe. Thanks to these circulations of the waters, all the creatures can be provided with water that sustains their lives. God gives waters not only in the form of rain but also in the forms of snow or dew. All these forms of precipitation from the sky actually symbolize the "blessings of God."
For the benefit of all the creatures including human beings, God the Father provides water in various forms. And thus, Deuteronomy 11:14 says, "... He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil."
